Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-08
GENERAL Markets.
Produce and Provisions.

ST. LOUIS, MO-, May 7.-Flour-Quiet and
steedY. Wheat-Lower; stronger and higher
vance 4@3sc, ibut the feeling soon became
weak, closing 403sc below the quotations of
yesterday; No red cash S50S5Hc; Ma7ss5a
$50, closing at s5c bid; June S41[as5e, closing
at S3c; September 635S@S33Sc, closing at S3]Sc.
Corn dull, IRREGULAR; cash 362S@3775e; day 36c
bid; June 361a 63736c, closing at 3631c; July
quiet and firm, cash at 2S11@2S}les; May
2Sc; June 2S75c; July 254c bid; year, 25c;
Cornmeal firm and active at 81 eSa
Old mess SIS 90; irregular new SIC 90. Lard
Sc 62HG6 70. Dry salt meats, boxed-ShOulders
SIS 6715; long clear ST so; clear ribs 81 5007 49,;
short clear 81 6567 20. Bacon, boxed lots
Shoulders Sc 2566 30; long clears S. 05@8 20$
clear ribs So l098 25 short clears So 35GS 30. x
CHICAGO, ILL, May 7.-Early sales of June
wheat on curb and open board were made AZ
S6ac, and indications were for much stronses
markets. Brokers for cliques went on the
board and broke the market down to 662Sc /;
sellers and official first sales on the big board
at which point clique houses did little buy
ing; their purchases sent it up &c almost
Immediately; reaction to $3.50 was only ten
porary, and after the first half hours trading
prices steadily sagged down to S52<c which was
a fraction under last nights closing figures.
Between 1880 and II O'Clock the market hung
between S514c and S5z5c, but at II 80 June sold
mOmentarily at SIC; the crowd in the pit was
very thin, and June again slagged back in its
former rut at s775c. Corn-Quiet and feature
less all DAY and fiuotuated in range of less than
&c. Sales were very scant at 3924c, which was
high, and 3911 1880, which was low the greater
part of the session; June corn sold between 80 g
039Xc. Provision dull lifeless, land only trading
of note was moderate sale OF ribs, which broke
June ribs from 81 S5G7 80. Leading futures
closed as follows: Wheat, No. 2, May S54c;
June S55sc; July $40 6S47sc; August S325c, Corn,
No. ,, May 38]9e: June 1880; July 4H@4l2sc;
August 422Sc. Messperk-May and June S23 SO
Lard-May Sc 621l; June Sc 80; July 81 90; Au-
gust 81 0Ia; short ribs May ST 40 June 81 4212 !;
July 81 5715; August 81 So. Cash quotations:
Flour qulet and unchanged No 2 spring wheat
S35sc; No : red S44c; No, 2 corn 363563s2!c.
Mess pork nominal. Lard, per 100 pounds,
421s; dry sailed shoulders (bo1ed) prices
easy; short clear sides (boxed) 81 90@7 50
NEW YORK, May 7.-Flour- Market firm
Wheat-Spot lots H0Hc and options RSlc
lower, closing barely steady at near bottom
rates; export trading very moderate; specula-
ton less active; spot No red s6Rc; at eleva-
tor, Size; free on board, 52l6964c, closing 96c;
June, 951S 0963sc, closing at 951lc; July, $40
953sc, closing at 94]zc; August, 921s $780, clos
ing at CSC. Corn-spot lots A@7zc and options
5.@%c lower closing ,o steady; trade quiet;
s sS9t N S:veed Mac 15S Ct c slSTat0
4Sc; June, 4S55c; July, 49X649Lc, clos
ing at 493s 0507sc.S Cotfee-Spot fair; Rio
active and firm az lT31c; options higher and
active; sales 1868 bags; May Sl5 5O615 so;
SO SOLE 20; September Sis 956l6 %; october
Sic Go916 35; November Sic O5616 35; Decem-
Der $l6 i06l6 40;T January IS 20GI6 As; Febru-
airy SIC 256l6 so; March sic 80. Sugar dull and
easy; fair to good refining 41zc; refined steady.
Molasses quiet and firm. Rice firm, Pork
spot 81 %; June 81 2167 p; July 81 2S@7 So;
August 81 81